Scoreboard
Can I use the pi to make a simple scoreboard no clock is needed the score is needed to be changed by a remote on a flat screen tv all I need to do is track two score for cornhole
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Re: Scoreboard
Hi,
...but your actual question is probably HOW to do it, right ?
There are several options... Having in mind that you might not have a large amount of projects listed in your CV already (else your question would not be so generic), you should grab some main techniques. Here I have HTML & web server in mind... Ok, so this is how you can do this (not optimal, but suitable for a beginner):
- install web server on RasPi (eg. Apache),
- create main HTML page, containing huge fonts displaying the result,
- this HTMP page needs to have auto-reload attribute set (to eg. 5 seconds, or so - it defines max. latency time),
- create a script which (according to your input, eg. buttons press) increments/decrements/resets/... the result and updates the HTML file.
This is it... launch the web browser with this HTML pase set as a home page and you're done.
The very next thing (version 1.0.1 ) which you might do to improve this "system" is to add PHP code into HTML page. PHP code would take care about result data by reading it from a dedicated file. The reason for doing this is to add a simple handling mechanism of simultaneous data update & read, which might occur.
Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.
Yes you can.Darrellr wrote:Can I use the pi to make a simple scoreboard
...but your actual question is probably HOW to do it, right ?
There are several options... Having in mind that you might not have a large amount of projects listed in your CV already (else your question would not be so generic), you should grab some main techniques. Here I have HTML & web server in mind... Ok, so this is how you can do this (not optimal, but suitable for a beginner):
- install web server on RasPi (eg. Apache),
- create main HTML page, containing huge fonts displaying the result,
- this HTMP page needs to have auto-reload attribute set (to eg. 5 seconds, or so - it defines max. latency time),
- create a script which (according to your input, eg. buttons press) increments/decrements/resets/... the result and updates the HTML file.
This is it... launch the web browser with this HTML pase set as a home page and you're done.
The very next thing (version 1.0.1
) which you might do to improve this "system" is to add PHP code into HTML page. PHP code would take care about result data by reading it from a dedicated file. The reason for doing this is to add a simple handling mechanism of simultaneous data update & read, which might occur.Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.
Running out of GPIO pins and/or need to read analog values?
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Re: Scoreboard
I also had a question about scoreboards. How difficult is it to build a small scoreboard for table football / foosball?
And is it possible to track the goals instantly or do you have to keep the score manually? I don't have a lot of technical knowledge, but I'm writing a blog post about the whole concept of a foosball scoreboard. Hope someone can help!
And is it possible to track the goals instantly or do you have to keep the score manually? I don't have a lot of technical knowledge, but I'm writing a blog post about the whole concept of a foosball scoreboard. Hope someone can help!